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Gluon

Not an Electron alternative, mostly. Library for making "desktop apps" from websites easily using Chromium and NodeJS. Uses system installed Chromium and NodeJS. VERY early and probably never finished/production ready.


Structure

  • Gluon: the Gluon library
  • Glugun: Gluon builder
  • Glucord: minimal Discord client loading official webapp (demo/example)

"Comparison"

Part Electron Gluon
Frontend Self-contained Chromium System Installed Chromium
Backend Self-contained Node.JS System Installed Node.JS
IPC Electron's Internal API Gluon's API via CDP
Stat Electron Gluon
Build Size ~190MB ~2MB1

Release Schedule

Gluon (and it's subprojects) use a major.patch version format, with major releases being released at ~22:00 UTC daily if there are changes present in main, while using X.0-dev in the meantime. Patch releases may happen inbetween to fix bugs (not adding anything new or breaking).

  1. Does not include system installed components ↩︎